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Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Smart Aleck Staff Survives a Near Attack

We knew when we were working on THE SMART ALECK'S GUIDE TO AMERICAN HISTORY that we were going to run afoul of a few Civil War buffs. See, there are a lot of them who insist that the war had nothing whatsoever to do with slavery. And that's just silly. Sure, you could argue that it wasn't really a Northern crusade against slavery, and that most soldiers probably didn't care much about it one way or the other, but all of the states who issued articles of secession made it VERY clear that they were seceding mainly to prolong the institution of slavery.

Now, we get the odd letter, but never had an actual attack...until today. Here's how it went down on twitter:

SJAdamsBooks: Group of Civil War re-enactors gathered outside of Smart Aleck HQ. In gray. More coming up Grand Ave. This can't be good. #CivilWar2?

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S.J. Adams is a very, very high-ranking member of Adam Selzer's Smart Aleck Staff, the team that produced The Smart Aleck's Guide to American History, and is the author of the YA novel SPARKS. As you can tell by the name, SJ is gender neutral.

SJ serves as Manager of Operations at Smart Aleck Headquarters in downtown Chicago. Did one of Adam's ghost hunting projects go horribly wrong? Is HQ being attacked by Civil War re-enactors again? Did someone say Bob Dylan can't sing, making Adam turn into the Hulk and threaten to smash Chicago? Never fear. We're the Smart Aleck Staff.